“One day I remember walking along a streetthat had just been colored,and where we were in the process of planting trees,when I saw a shopkeeper and his wifeputting a glass facade to their shop.They had thrown the old shutterin the garbage collection place.

“Why did you throw away the shutters?” I asked him.

“Well, because the street is safer now,” they answered.

“Safer? Why? They have posted more policemen here?”

“Come on, man! What policemen?You can see it for yourself. There are colors,streetlights, new pavement with no potholes,trees. So it’s beautiful; it’s safe.””

“The rehabilitation of public spaces revived the feeling of belonging to a city that people lost. The pride of people about their own place of living, and there were feelings that had been buried deep for years under the fury of the illegal, barbaric constructions that sprang up in the public space. And when colors came out everywhere, a mood of change started transforming the spirit of people. Big noise raised up: “What is this? What is happening? What are colors doing to us?””